Daniel McConnell

He's 48, but he's a doubler from the north side, up in the Cabra Road.

He is unmissable in terms of his look.

He's pasty white skin, flaming red hair.

He's got a very strong beard, all the rest of it.

But he has taken or has been a huge figure in the wrestling world.

And I suppose it's probably because it's seen as sport entertainment and not sport.

Mm-hmm.

There might be an element of security, but this is big business like wrestling in America and across the world in the WWE or WWF as it was when I was growing up is massive.

Like, I mean, turnovers of nearly 2 billion a year headed for many, many years by the iconic Vince McMahon and his family, his daughter, and now son-in-law Paul Levesque or Triple H now run the business.

Oh, wow.

given there was a whole power struggle there a number of years ago, the company has gone public.

You know, it's now a publicly traded company.

So like the sort of the wild west or the kind of more extreme elements of wrestling that kind of existed in generations gone by don't exist anymore.

It's a massive, for an Irish man to not only get to the point of being on television and being kind of as part of the roster,

But actually to be a former WWE champion says a lot about Stephen Farrelly's or Sheamus' trajectory and his career.

So I thought he was well worth sitting down with.

And in the interview we go through, I suppose not only his route in to the WWE, I suppose his starting here in Dublin.

And kind of into UK wrestling and then kind of making that journey over.

But then he talks about his, I suppose, his first being on television competing at that top, top level.

And then I suppose his relationship with money, you know, I mean, we get into that a little bit about, you know, what he, you know, because I mean, at that level, you're making serious money.